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Capital ship reactor power

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I'm trying to not delve too into the sciences so as to keep things fairly suitable for a space opera setting, but I'm trying to figure a few things to a reasonable degree of detail.

My question here is; Say you had a large spaceship (anywhere from a capital ship the size of the Galactica, or smaller ships like the Millenium Falcon) Given the large power requirements of both, it's necessary for them to use some large, advanced reactors, possibly multiple. Fusion seems to be a good catch-all for this. However, how would one go about attaining the inital amount of power needed to kick-start the reactor? This is obviously a bigger issue on larger vessels, where the power requirements will be higher.

The ship would have seperate systems to produce power (Main reactor(s)), and to create thrust, which would be seperate engine powerplants, using most likely a different type of fuel. So far my best idea has been to use the engines to kick-start the reactor, assuming the engines don't have a high initial energy investment needed, which most ships most likely would.

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